Just some love for the Crozet Trails Crew, and a huge and heartfelt thank you to the volunteers for all that they do for Crozet.
Crozet Trails Ready for the Weekend
Crozet Trails Crew Workdays – March 2018
via email
Go green for St. Patrick’s Day by helping to maintain a Crozet trail! We have a workday this Saturday, March 17 at 9 am at the Creekside Trail in Old Trail (apologies for the date error in our last email). This beautiful trail that runs along Lickinghole Creek needs some attention–we will build a section of boardwalk and make other trail improvements. Wear sturdy shoes or boots and bring water, pruners/loppers, and work gloves.
Directions: from Jarman’s Gap Road, turn into Old Trail on Old Trail Drive. Go through the first traffic circle, then turn right on Welbourne Lane to pass through the Creekside gate/pylons. Entrance to the trail is .2 miles on the left, almost directly across from Millstream Drive. Park along the street. If coming from 250, simply reverse!
Continue the celebratory spirit into April by raising a toast to our trails! Starr Hill Brewery has once again named the Crozet Trails Crew as the April beneficiary of Cheers for Charity! $1 of every pint sold during the month will be donated to our work building and maintaining Crozet Trails. Plan to attend some of our planned special events at Starr Hill (and buy a beer or two while you’re there)–or just stop by for no reason at all!
Saturday, April 7, 2 pm, Kickoff party – an informal gathering to celebrate our work (and sell beer). If you already know the Trails Crew, come for the fun. If you don’t know us, come on out to meet some friendly people and learn about the trails.
Sunday, April 15, 2 pm — Bike Maintenance Demo presented by Cor from the Crozet Bicycle Shop. Learn how to do simple repairs and bring your questions. We’ll be giving away a couple of bike tune-ups as door prizes.
Sunday, April 22, 1 pm – Earth Day 4K Trail Race. More details to come.
Our next monthly meeting will be Thursday, March 22, 6:30-8 pm at Mi Rancho in Old Trail Town Center. See you on the trails,
Crozet Trails Crew Have Big Goals in 2015
The Crozet Trails Crew is one of those unheralded (or at least not-heralded-enough) groups that make Crozet a great place to live. Their efforts make being in – and staying in – Crozet better.
A few real estate-related thoughts:
- Bike paths increase property values
- A few photos from 2012 on the Crozet Trails
- You can see a lot of Albemarle’s trails online.
Their 2015 goals are bold. And good. If you’re interested in helping them, I’m sure they’d welcome you!
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Help the Crozet Trails Crew this Weekend
The work of the Crozet Trails Crew is truly one of the Crozet’s great assets*
and this weekend provides a great opportunity to help maintain the trail and meet some of your neighbors!
This Saturday is an all-hands-on-deck workday at Crozet Park. There will be several projects going on, but the CTC will be working to clear mass amounts of weedy, viney vegetation from the area adjacent to the trail near the lower baseball field. The workday is 8am-4pm, but I suspect the Crew will mainly be working 9am-12 or 1pm. If anyone wants to come for a later shift, let me know and we’ll make sure to overlap some. wear long pants and long sleeves. If you know you are going to come, (lunch) is provided if you register here.
The Spring Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival is scheduled for May 10-11– The Crozet Trails Crew has been asked to assist with Friday evening set-up (May 9) and Sunday evening clean up (May 11). Please see if those spots work for you. If not, please sign up for something else; there are many fun options! You can volunteer at Sign-Up Genius.
ALSO ON MAY 10th:
Crozet Running is putting on a FREE (yes, you read that right) 5k Trail Run at Mint Springs and have asked the Crozet Trails Crew to support this event by providing volunteers. See the website with registration AND the volunteer sign up.
Crozet Trails Crew Happenings
via email – (anyone have pictures of the Western Ridge bridge you could share?)
1. Albemarle County Parks and Rec is working to install the trail bridge near Westhall and some CTC folks have been helping. The concrete footers were poured last week. See attached photo. If you’d like to help with this effort, join the mid-week work crew by emailing me a request.
Crozet Trails Crew Weekend Fun – 3 September 2011
via email from the Crozet Trails Crew:
To mark the 45-day countdown to Crozet Trails Day 2011 (cue fireworks and kazoos), we will be having a workday this Sunday, beginning at 8:30am.
We will be working on a section of the WAHS cross country trail (where the 5k will be held). We’ll meet in front of Trailside Coffee (they open at 8am!) and then walk or carpool close to the trail.
I’ll bring tools, but feel free to bring a weed-eater if you want to. Please wear long pants, good shoes, work gloves, and bring water.
Work on the Crozet Trails this Weekend!
via email:
1. This Saturday (yes, just 2 days away, I know. Sorry for the late notice) we will be working at the Henley Hornets Trail at Beaver Creek reservoir. We will be working to clear seasonal vegetation, maintain the trail tread, reinforce steps, and discuss options for trail extension (!!). We have invited some local scout troops to join us. There are some projects along the trail that would be ideal for scout troops and/or Eagle scout candidates. If you have a scout (boy or girl) in your family, I encourage you to bring them out this Saturday to get involved, regardless of whether or not their troop is going to be present.
Please meet at the main Beaver Creek parking lot (behind the rowing building) at 8:30am. Bring gloves and water. The County will provide the tools.
2. As we continue to work with the community in our trail-building efforts, it it very important that the CTC be well-represented. In an effort to keep any one Crew member from spreading themself too thin, we would greatly appreciate a Community Liaison volunteer! This person would come to our monthly meetings, keep abreast of what we are working on, and communicate with the Crozet Community in assorted ways (Crozet Gazette, RealCrozetVA.com, Crozet Business Networking Group, etc.). This person would also lead the charge in contacting local business owners regarding Crozet Trails Day (in other words, you’d tell the rest of us who we need to go talk to and generally what to tell them). This position is so vital to what we are doing and I would work closely with this volunteer to make sure that you are not asked to do too much. If you want to talk more about it or think you may be interested, let me know.
Crozet Trails Crew Update – June 2 2011
From Jessica Mauzy and the Crozet Trails Crew:
1. Grayrock workday this Saturday 8:30-11am. Bring gloves and water, the County will supply the tools and materials. If we have enough people, we can finish this project on Saturday!
2. Monthly Meeting next Thursday, June 9th, Trailside Coffee 6-8pm. We’ll be talking about the July 2nd parade, Crozet Trails Day, the Greenway, and designing hats. Anything else?
3. Crozet trails Day will take place on October 15th and will begin with a 5k trail run (based at Crozet Park) followed by a kids run and some town-wide adventure activities. Want to help plan it? Let me know. We need helpers!
4. June 11th (Saturday)- Trail activities at Preddy Creek Park, the brand new County park. More details on the website (www.crozettrailscrew.org)
5. June 18th (Saturday)- CTC workday at Byrom Park- New County park north of White Hall- perfect for Crozet and White Hall residents. We will be building trails! More info to come.
Hope to see you all soon– come on out and earn yourself a Connect Crozet CTC T-shirt!